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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-17
The First Banjo-pIayer,

The first man who ever played banjo was
Joe Sweeney, and his instrument was an ex-
cavated gourd with four strings. Joe gave
the first tunes in public circus tent. He
was deck hand, working on a canal, going
from Richmond to Lynchburg. He afterward
was with negro minstrel companies, and was
great feature, both in this country and
Europe. baltimore american.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-17

Colonel John A. McCaull, the well known
comic opera manager, was soldier in the
Confederate army. He has single answer
to every one who attempts to chat him about
the rebel flags. "Confound your impu-
dence," he says, "who made this country
anyway? Where would the developed
greatness have been if we hadn't rebelled
Who gave you fellows up North chance Ia
get rich and rob each other? Who enabled
Grant to leave the tanners storeY VINO
gave Phil Sheridan chance? Wouldn't
Sherman still have been out on the frontier
mixing with Indians but for us? Why,
gentlemen, we have made you. You can't
crow over us."-New Orleans Times Democrat.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-17

DIR. Spencer +. Baird was the author of
more than l 200 books, pamphlets and pub
locations of various kinds.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-17

u IL u : n e y
may stand on
quite different
rounds of the
social ladder.
M. Jules limbs,
who is presi-
d e n t of the
n e W b o r II
"Syndicat DIES
In v e nteurs,"
says their OBJ
ject is to bring
about a union
among French
inventors, Ia
help and guide
t b e m, an d
protect their
individual in
terests as well
as the collec-
tive interests
ofinvention in
general. In
-1-%au, ,loo,,II
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-17

When Shakespeare said There's divinity
which shapes oul ends" did he Ia CORE
spondent asks refer to lady adjusting her
bustle2
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-17
NO WONDER THEY LAUGH.

" hen'er you see an ancient chap,
Take up a baby in his lap,
And bounce the infant on his knee,
Until it fairly crows with glee,
Make up your mind the reason
why
Is that the youngster doesn't cry,
And gets its happy little mood
From eating Lorgeine, Baby Food.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-17
A NOVEL SOCIETY.
An Association of Inventors Lately Dis
covered in Paris.

A society of inventors has been discovered
in Paris. The great fraternities of French
men who work that thew NAV live are firm
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-17

Jeremiah, did you bring that hunk of
oleomargarine from town with your in
quired Farmer Goshen. Eyes, father"
"Well jis' drop it inter the churn and call out
the summer boarders. - Worcester Gazstte.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-17


believers in the Bel
gian motto-"Union is
strength" nearly
every trade and pro-
fession has its syndicat,
or council, which
watches over the in
terests of the workers.
There are councils and
associations of masters,
and councils and asso-
Citations of men. All
this is ineligible in the
case of a particular
branch of industry,
but inventors may be
anything or nothing,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-17
SHORTHAND.
HOW PEOPLE WRITE AS FAST AS
THEY CAN TALK.

System Used In Reporting the Debates IN
the British Parliament-Handed Down
from Father to Son-Isaac Pitman's In
vention and the Use 1t Has Been Put to.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-17

trunk the elephant would starve to death,
as shown in the case of an Indian elephant
that, having lost its trunk by accident,
was unable to feed itself, and would soon
have died had it not been for the man
detailed to feed it.
The trunk is literally fifth hand or
general utility organ. With it the ele-
plant draws in water and elects it into
its mouth 1t also takes up dust and
throws it over its back or introduces the
trunk into the mouth and draws water
from the stomach to blow over the heated
body. At word from the driver the
latter is lifted by the trunk upon the ele-
plants back. With the trunk the small
est stones are picked up and handed to
the mahout to throw at elephants ahead.
The pet elephant of the Duke of Devon
shire drew corks with its trunk with great
gusto, and Colonel Nicholas Pike, of
Brooklyn, our late consul at the Mauri-
thus, informs me that he has seen tho
same act performed. With its trunk the
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-17
"QUEEN'S WEATHER"
EFFECT OF SUNSHINE ON THE LON
DON PARKS.

A Great Metropolis Free from its Gloom
and Fog-Hunting for the Prince Albert
Memorial-East and West End-Great
Picture Collections General Gossip.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-17

The greatest truths are the simplest; so are
the greatest men.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-17

And all who substitute Lorgelne
To nurture baby, or to wean,
Find as they view its healthy state,
The strongest praise inadequate.
No longer then we vainly seek
For roses on the infant cheek,
Since chubby angels do we see
In babies plump as plump can he.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-17

But when you find the little dears
Inclined to waste themselves in tears,
Remember how of yore you cried
When hunger was unsatisfed.
Then as their doleful cries attest
The emptiness of mothers breast,
See pain give place to joyful mood,
Charmed thence by Lorgeine, Baby Food.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1887-04-23
TIPS AND FEES.
An Un-American Practice which should
Receive No Encouragement.

An Un-American Practice which should
Receive No Encouragement.
In his recent novel, 1.-The Minister'S
Charge" Mr.. Howells incidentally
treats the matter of tips and fees to
hotel walters and others occupying SIM
liar positions. Evans, the editor, offers
the customary zee to young Barker,
hotel waiter, but the latter refuses it
with rustic dignity. saying that che
doesn't know as he wants any money
which he has not earned" This sug-
gests the inquiry to Evans whether he
is not quite as mean for offering the fee
as Barker would have been had he ac-
cepted it.
This nuisance has grown to be abom-
Unable and uncomfortable in the old coun-
tries of Europe and is making rapid
headway in the United States. Twenty
years ago it was not known in this
country. To-day its practice is scan
dalously prevalent 1t is one of those
vices of European monarchy which
have been introduced into America by
the victims of Anglomania. Tt is a
thoroughly contemplate, pernicious
and un-American practice which
should receive no encouragement
or liberation by any self-respecting
citizen. The American idea always has
been that one should pay current prices
/ for what he gets. whether it be yard
of cloth, a ticket on a steamboat or
railway car, meal at hotel, or what
ever else, and that that should be the
end of it. Also that whoever hires any
one should pay him fair wages for his
labor,
But of late this theory has been
crowded to the wall. and a system of
perquisites, tips and fees has grown up
which in some lines of service has at
tanned such proportions that persons
can afford to pay for the privilege of
serving employers instead of being paid
by them for the service they render.
There is one way, and only one way.
to break it up. Let every offerer of a
Tip" or gratuity feel that he is doing 3
mean and humiliating thing. and that
his honesty and self-respect command
him to withhold the proffered aims.
Let him make matter of principle of
it and stand out stoutly against the
lpraetice. A public sentiment can thus
be created which will nip the vicious
custom with a killing Chicago
Journal.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1887-04-23
THE TLAxcALANs.
The Thrifty InIabitants of the oldest RE-
public In the New world.

The Thrifty IDhabifAnts of the Oldest Re-
public In the New world.
In Central Mexico not very far from
the capital lies the oldest republic of
the New World. It is Tlaxcala, the
proudest city of all Mexico. 1t is purely
Indian in origin and government. This
strange people remained unconquered
until the Spaniards forced their en-
trance in 1919, and then Cortes treated
them as national allies rather than enc
mics. He turned their indomitable eour-
age and wonderful skill in his favor
and against their hereditary foes, the
Aztecs, and was thus enabled to finally
subdue the Montezumas. The friend
ship of the Tlaxcalans once pledged is
invincible. and the Spanish relied on
their promise to convey timber for his
ships over the mountains to Texcoco
Lake, and thereon he built the fleet that
gave to Spain her great American pos
sessions. Tlaxeala is perched up among
the high mountains and rendered i'm
pregnable by nature on three sides and
fortified by an enormous wall on the
fourth, which defied the attacks OF the
Aztecs in many wars. The people have
the air and manner of freeman and are
inordinately proud of their ancient and
honorable lineage.
For the prominent part taken in the
conquest by the Tiaxcalans Spain con-
ferred on them exclusive privileges,
and to this day they maintain them
None but full-blooded Indians sit in
their Senate, and their Government Is
tempered BY wisdom and moderation.
In 1922 Spanish priests went over to
Mexico. and soon the caciques or chiefs
of the Tlaxealans became Christians
and were baptized under Christian
names. and that is why so many Indians
have European cognomens. The Tlax-
calans are very exclusive and rarely
mingle with the outside world, and
that is why we were surprised to see
one among the Indian artisans at the
| Aztec fair His name is Ramon Huerta,
and probably is the only fulI-blooded
Tlaxcalan who ever left his native land
voluntarily. He was born in the cap
| ital city, and in early life served in their
little army of defense. but so seldom
did the waves of revolution roll up
among their crags that he became tired
of inactive military duty and adopted
the trade of silyersmith. His phleg-
matte perseverance soon mastered his
calling, and he began to elaborate, and
so skillful was his work that il was sent
to Mexico City for sale and this brought
him to the notice of the Aztec fair man.
agement. The TlaxcaIans are extreme
| ly phlegmatic and Huerta is no excep-
ton. Since leaving his native city he
has seen all the wonders of our progress
sive land. and yet nothing calls from
him an expression of wonder or admira-
ton. but undoubtedly he viii carry
back many strange tale of his adven-
lures in foreign lands. which will sound
like fairy legends TO his primitive peo-
ple.-N. I. Graphic.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1887-04-23
DECORATIVE ART.
Designs which Might Give a Sober Man =
Case of Jimjams.

Case OF JitnJams.
A pair Of old castaway boots veneered
with gilt make pretty wall ornament
To add to the effect put patches of cot
ton wool on the legs, to initiate snow
An old pair of corsets ornamented
with creeping vines and pretty designs
in leaf, make very elegant ornament
to hang over bedroom door.
An old coal scuttle tinted with deli
cate shades of scarlet and cerulean blue
furnishes a unique relief for a dining
room wall. To brighten the effect place
several selected vegetables in the scut-
tie, allowing the tops to be seen at a
distance of half way across the ROOM
As an ornamental design for a front
hall take dozen tomato cans and paint
each one a different color. Tie a bow
Of pretty satin ribbon of various shades
about each. Run gaudy string through
the lot and hang them on the wall close
+, to the ceiling. One can hardly imagine
the divine effect of this exquisite eollec-
ton.
An old tin water sprinkler covered
with halo of gilt stars and pulverized
glass diamonds and suspended from a
parlor chandelier is very attractive. A
large pink satin bow arranged over the
spout adds very materially to the effect.
t-WhitehaH Ifaaes.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1887-04-23
A VALENTINE.

II could bring the brightest gems
From Natures richest treasure mine
Diamond, ruby and amethyst,
Shining pearls that the waves have kissed
I'd string them In one radiant twist
To make my love a Valentine.
III / could find the rarest flowers
That over all the wide world shine
The edelweiss. with true love power.
The aloe and the spirit flower
Td pluck them all in one glad hour
To make my love a Valentine.
II I could catch the iiecting beams
or bright Aurora rays divine,
And keep the gieafn OF sunset skies,
Aud hold the rainbow's wondrous dyes,
Id take the glow that IN them lies
To paint my love Valentine.
II could chain the lightnng's flash
And spin IL In d golden line.
And keep the starry tiakes OF snow.
III bind them with the lightning so
That frost and fire should blend aud glow
To make my love a Valentine.
But since these wishes may not be,
And nothing rich or rare Is mine.
Except my heart and love SO true,
This painted nower OF dainty blue
Shall bear them. with the wish that you
WIN always be my Valentino
~ Y TnHsprasfsnk
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1887-04-23
RlEAcHEo DIAMONDS.
A Clever Method of Increasing the Value
of Inferior stones.

~
of Inferior stones.
Every one, of course, knows some
thing about paste diamonds and Paris
diamonds aud the thousand-and-one
limitations of this gem of great price.
And most people, we imagine, know the
various tests by which the genuineness
of stone is established; but the revela-
tions made at the Marylebone police
court the other day will probably be
news to some of us. AS to the case it
self. we need say no more than that the
prisoners were committed for trial; but
certain facts came out during the in
quiry which possess considerable inter-
est for the public. or at least for those
of the public who are the happy owners
of diamonds. That there should be any
means whereby yellow diamonds, which
are worth about oue-seyenth of white
diamonds of the same size, can be
bleached-for that is what the manipu-
lation amounts to-so as to deceive an
expert is enough to cause very serious
disquietude in many a fair bosom. But
Mr. Streeter went even further than this,
for he gratitously informed the magis-
| UTatc tHdI doout wv GUS 'asso iOiiSh-
man succeeded in foisting upon the Lon
don market some $4,000 worth of dia-
monds which had thus been chemically
improved. 1t would be interesting to
know what has become of those dia-
monds. What has become of their
doubtless numerous successors. So val
liable an invention has certainly no;
been permitted to lie idle.-St. James
Gazette.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1887-04-23
The string of pearls worn at tn

The string of pearls worn at the
opera in New York BY Mrs. William K.
Vanderbilt attracts more attention than
the singers and ballet. 1t consists OF
346 oriental pearls, set in golden
cham. which belonged to the Empress
Eugenie and which was recently pur-
chased for $4,000 1t was worn by
Mrs. Vanderbilt over the top of her
head, thence down the back of her eoif-
fure to her neck. which it encircled,
with enough left to hang down ON her
bosom.-N. J.. Posi-
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1887-04-23

Spain has torpedo cruiser, COM
pared with which the grayhounds of the
sea are but as waddling ocean poodles.
This remarkable vessel is the Destructor
recently launched at Glasgow, which on
her trial trip developed the speed OF
about PA miles an hour.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-04-05
WORKING SOUTHERN AND WEST
ERN ROOMS.

ERN BOOMS.
An observing writer in Southern jour-
nal speaks out against the "bucket shop"
manner of working Blooms in the South
and denounces il as little better than "a
kgamble.o Already" says this writer,
'they are gambling in real estate just as
they gamble elsewhere in stocks, and, as
soon as the reaction sets in, as 1t surely
will, the poor people who have put their
little all upon it will come out fieeced. No
enterprise is legitimate which rests on such
foundations. NoprOsperity can last which
is not buile upon honest labor. Blooms,
as they are called, are snares; and nothing
is so illusory as paper bOOms.
There is good sound sense in this reason
ing. Men cannot get something out OF
nothing any better in the South and west
than they can in the East. No city can
long prosper on fictitious values and nc
titious resources. Cities like Wheeling
and others in the Ohio Valley, having great
resources and facilities, and values reck-
oned on a substantial basis, are those that
become really prosperous, Their growth
may be slow, butt is the growth of the oak
and not Of the mushroom. Here IS
something from western paper, the CHI
cago Ereaiag Journal, that shows the
/ inwardness of bOoms, and IS very
wholesome reading for eastern people who
think of pulling up stakes hereand settling
down in some much-boomed western town :
"A st. Louis paper the other day published
two columns of specials and newspaper ex-
tracts from nearly a score of places IN the
West and South where real estate specula-
ton is now at fever heat. And this does
not include the whole of them by any
means Kansas City, Omaha, Topeka and
other places are laying out lots miles from
the centre of business, and attaching to
the land values that are wholly fictitious.
II will be remembered that indianapolis
did the same thing some years ago. The
'city of coneentric circles" expected to
come near filling the whole space between
Lake Michigan and the Ohio river. That
was some twenty years ago, but the Indi-
ana capital is yet substantially confined
within the narrow limits Of White river
aud Pogue's Run. The deluded people who
exchanged valuable farms for worthless lots
in suburban additions with grand names,
lost all they had by the bargain, and when
the boom finally collapsed the city fell so
hard that it has not yet fully recovered
from the shock. Other OVERLOOKED towns
will share a similar fate While the fever
lasts shrewd spectators may reap golden
haryests, but excitements OF this kind can
not, in the nature of things, last long, and
when the end comes somebody is bound to
get hurt And not only individuals, but
entire communities, suffer serious loss by
such wild speculatiOns.'
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-04-05

THE question of the removal of the ere
matory comes up before Council tonight.
Council should 20 slow in this matter.
The cFematory is now located in place
where n gives Offense to no one. The only
objection to its present location is its in
accessibility. But it could be made ae-
cessible at all times by matchmaking
the road. The cost of this
would perhaps not be half as great
as in securing 4 site elsewhere and remOv-
ing it. Aud should it be decided to re-
move it, il is doubtful whether it could
be located conveniently anywhere in the
city so that there would not be great OBJ
iections to it from people living in the vi
cinity. Let the work Of conveying the
garbage into the erematory and consuming
it be done ever so carefully, it must be
more or less offensive. And il can not add
to the healthfulness of the neighborhoOd in
which it is located
Better let we'll enough alone, especially
as it costs the city less.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-04-05
The Chautauqua Season for ~.

CHAUTAUQUA, April 4.-The season for
the present year is to open July =, and an
unequalled programme is in course OF
preparation. Among the prominent men
who are to be present are George W. Cable,
the great Southern novelist, very fas,
cinating lecturer; Will Carleton, poet and
reciter of his own works; Mrs. Mary Liver
more, lecturer and philanthropist; Sam
Jones, the revivalist; the famous and ire
sistible Chaplain McCabe; Rev. DIR. Fair
bairn, of Mansfield College, Oxford, Eng
land; Professor w. G.. Sum or. of Yale
President Adams, of Cornell University
Rev. DIR. ]. NJ. Buckley, editor of the
New York Christian AdrOcdte; Col. Sprague,
A. p. Burbank and Others. Concerts, dis
PLAYS Of fire works, illuminated fleets, etc,
etc, are among the attractions of the
season. Chautauqua's spectacular displays
have become famous for their originality
and uuiqueness.
Rev. John II. Vincent, ID, Chancellor
of the Chautauqua University, is in
Europe
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-04-05
SAYS the Weston World.

State Rights. National Rights and all
other rights sink into insignihcanee at this
time of Camden's peril, and the REGISTER
knows of no principle, truth or law that 1t
will not sacrifice to secure the election OF
]. n. Camden to the U. S. Senate.
The REGISTER has long since accepted
the question oiStates Rights as settled, and
places the National Constitution rs the
supreme law of the land. When there is n
conflict between National and State COnsti-
tutions, there is no doubt in our mind as
to which should yield.
But it is very funny to see papers like
the Weston World, the HingwOOd Journal
and the ParEersburg JOHrhGl, that have
always sworn by the Federal Constitution
as Gospel, now trampling it under foot
when it no longer serves their purpose,
and taking up the doctrine of States Rights.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-04-05

WHITE of the Parkersburg Journal says
that electing a Senator at the extra session
sis question for the Democracy to settle
and good Republican policy would seem
to US to dictate that the Republicans must
vote squarely against opening up the ques-
ton again"
Or in other words he would have West
Virginia represented By but one Senator
for the next two years, if it would give
the Republican party some. partisan advan-
tage. 1t has come to bad pass when a
paper that aspires to lead its party, as the
Journal does, considers the interests Of the
State rs nothing and partisan gain as
everything. Certainly the large majority
Of the Republicans do not think this way.